lok Sabha was adjourned on the first day of the Winter Session after paying tributes to nine members, including sitting TMC MP Renuka Sinha, and world leaders. Rajya Sabha also mourned four of its former MPs before setting off for its business.
Paying tributes to Sinha, lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan said the Trinamool Congress MP from Coochbehar passed away following a cardiac arrest on August 16.
Mahajan told the House that six other lok Sabha MPs had also died in recent past. They were V Jeyalakshmi (Member, 5th and 6th lok Sabhas), Arif Baig (Member, 6th and 9th lok Sabhas), P Kannan (Member, 6th and 8th lok Sabhas).